Thomas B. Costain
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Thomas Bertram Costain (May 8, 1885 - October 8, 1965) was a Canadian journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57.
Costain was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and married Ida Randolph Spragge. The couple had two children. He was a staff writer for Toronto-based Maclean's Magazine and contributed to major magazines in the U.S. His work is a mixture of commercial history (such as The White and The Gold, a history of New France to around 1720), and fiction that relies heavily on real historic events. He died in 1965 in New York City, New York of a heart attack
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[edit] Novels
- For My Great Folly (1942)
- Joshua: Leader of a United People - A Realistic Biography (1943) - with Rogers MacVeagh
- Ride With Me (1944)
- The Black Rose (1945)
- The Moneyman (1947)
- High Towers (1949)
- Son of a Hundred Kings (1950)
- The Silver Chalice (1952)
- The Tontine (1955)
- Below the Salt (1957)
- The Darkness And The Dawn (1959)
- The Last Love (1963)
[edit] Non-fiction
- The White and the Gold (1954)
- The Chord of Steel: The Story of the Invention of the Telephone (1960)
- William the Conqueror a Landmark book (1963)
- The Plantagenets series (also known as The Pageant of England)
- The Conquering Family (1949)
- The Magnificent Century (1951)
- The Three Edwards (1958)
- The Last Plantagenets (1962)
[edit] Other Works
- Stories to Remember (1956) a selection of novels and short stories chosen by Costain and John Beecroft. First of 3 collections.
- More Stories to Remember (1958) with John Beecroft
- Thirty Stories (1961) with John Beecroft
[edit] Films from his novels
- The Black Rose (1950) starring Tyrone Power
- Son of a Hundred Kings (1950) CBC mini-series
- The Silver Chalice (1954) starring Paul Newman in his film debut
- The Chord of Steel (1960) CBC mini-series
